Bredon Hill Surgery aims to provide high quality General Practice Services to any patient living or staying within our practice area.

Bredon Hill Surgery aims to provide our service in a timely, professional and caring fashion

Bredon Hill Surgery continually strives to improve the quality of the services we offer.

PRACTICE OBJECTIVES

We will achieve these aims by:

Treating all our patients with respect and dignity. Involving them in decision making and encouraging them to take responsibility for their own health.

Being courteous, approachable and accommodating.

Listening to the concerns of patients, their families and carers and take action where needed.

Involving other health professionals in the care of our patients and communicating effectively with them

Ensuring that all members of the Practice team have the appropriate skills and training to carry out their duties competently and professionally in a safe and supportive environment

Communicating clearly and regularly without patients using a range of media, and to invite on-going feedback using our website, patient surveys and the Patient Participation Group.

Promoting the uptake of evidence based treatments and procedures

Promoting equality of access to health care for all our registered population

Fostering an innovative approach to the development of primary care through clinical teaching, audit and research.

Maintaining the confidentiality of patient information at all times.

THE PRACTICE POPULATION

The practice is the only Primary Care Facility serving the patients of Bredon. We provide general practice services to any patient living or staying within our area of Bredon and outlying villages. The practice has been operating from our purpose-built premises at Main Road since 1989. Our premises have disabled access and parking facilities. We also have a dispensary. We dispense medications to around 95% of our patients.

We have a large population of elderly patients when compared to the county average, resulting in problems with social isolation, but with low levels of deprivation. The patient list has been gradually increasing in size and the practice now has over 5200 patients.

IMPROVING HEALTH

The practice has a strong clinical team which consists of Doctors, Practice Nurses, District Nurses and associations with health visitors, midwives, a Social Worker and mental health nurses.

STAFF

Four doctors work from our surgery, providing general medical care. We have 2 male and 1 female partners, making 2.2 whole time equivalents. We also have one female part time salaried GP who works 6 sessions.

The nursing staff working with the practice comprises of, four part time Practice Nurses one of whom undertakes a Health Care Assistant role. We also have 3 district nurses, 1 health visitors, and 1 midwife.

The Practice Manager manages all Operational, Financial, HR, Strategic and Health and Safety matters within the Practice. She is supported by an Assistant Practice Manager, the Lead Nurse and Senior Dispenser, and a team of admin staff who undertake reception, secretarial and other administrative duties.

We are a training practice for GP registrars; Dr Tribley is a GP trainer.

EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES

The practice has a wide range of modern medical equipment, and our policy is to extend the range as often as possible, and as need arises and resources allow. The equipment is maintained in line with regulations.

We are a paper-light practice, and use the EMIS web computer system. We offer our patients on-line appointment booking and prescription requesting via the Patient.co.uk website.